Your green slip is showing

Archive    Thursday, March 9, 2023

Third Party in strife … Mile long delays for medical assessments … NSW judicial officer fires back with lengthy screed … Improper process … Parliamentary committee spanks judge … Failure to recuse … Theodora reports 

 

Red Sea tempest

Archive    Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Legal eruptions in Israel … Spurious justification for usurping the authority of the Supreme Court … Judicial review rendered useless … Bibi’s “home free” card … Neutering the constitution … New mechanism for politicised judicial appointments … Black Robes on the barricades … Max Shanahan reports  

 

Red Sea tempest

Archive    Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Legal eruptions in Israel … Spurious justification for usurping the authority of the Supreme Court … Judicial review rendered useless … Bibi’s “home free” card … Neutering the constitution … New mechanism for politicised judicial appointments … Black Robes on the barricades … Max Shanahan reports  

 

Delays, fees and rubbish removal

Archive    Friday, February 24, 2023

Another two year judgment delay from WA’s Hill J … Claims of clarity and recollection need reworking … Rebooting the AAT … Barrister champing at the bit for his (reduced) fees … Theodora’s Goings On 

 

Land, lots of land under starry skies above

Archive    Thursday, February 23, 2023

HWL Ebsworth found to be negligent in arrangements for massive land deal in western Sydney … Quantum of damages yet to be determined … Loss of opportunity to develop the land … Failure to amend joint venture agreement in accordance with plaintiffs’ instructions … Don’t fence me in 

 

UN locked out of prison

Archive    Tuesday, February 21, 2023

United Nations human rights brigade pulls the plug on Australian prison inspections … NSW’s law ‘n’ order agenda threatened by Convention Against Torture … Obstructions … Commonwealth-State funding dispute … Max Shanahan reports on the latest embarrassment 

 

The Eagle has landed

Archive    Thursday, February 16, 2023

Fees please … Barrister’s billing sliced and diced as unfair and unreasonable … Judge unhappy with thousands of pages of documents … Associated costs blowout … Max Shanahan reports 

 

Fresh despair

Archive    Friday, February 10, 2023

Another sexually harassing judge under secret scrutiny … Death of Robin Speed – what now for the Law of Rulers Institute? … Averting the Republic of Gilead – the Law Reform Commission steps up … Theodora reports